[szejia]

Have you all heard about the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome? Lol. I am suffering from it now. LOL. I had dinner a couple of hours ago at a restaurant and i thoroughly enjoyed the food. But when i got home, i realized i got really thirsty and minor tummy pains. it's not the first time my body reacts strangely to excessive MSG.

lol. is there a way to get rid of the thirst because it's been 3 hours and i'm running out of water. ==

Don't you guys hate restaurants that pour in TOO much additives?

Come and Share your MSG woes!

[KuYA II]

i hate msg a lot and any type of flavor. I like my foods to be plain and sodium (soy sauce, salt, pepper) flavor free.

one time i ate at this korean restaurant and ordered a kimchi mackeral (sp?). I never realized there is so much msg in it because for some reason i was able to identify the flavor of it. Then my stomach hurt and i needed to intake a lot of water.

[Jacx]

I really hate food with lotsa msg. It just makes me become sooooo thirsty after eating.
So I nvr drink soup outside home. I hate the thirsty feeling and I feel my lips swell cos of the salty feel.

[vip_gd]

i'm quite used to it ..
doesn't have an effect on me

[gabbstar]

im pretty use to it as well
but yer so thirsty after too much msg
like when i go out to eat pho and id be so thirsty afterwards
or like yum cha =/

[Azura]

a little bit of msg did really enhence the flavour in the food...

[eliman]

lol i love msg bt mayb too much won't taste good bt it apparently it aso makes ur hair drop?!

[szejia]

Yah. LOL. Apparently it is believed to cause hairloss. HAHA. But idk. Might be a myth. =D

There's MSG in everything now really. Ramen, chips, sauces, fast food. SOB.

[marasshi]

I don't think MSG has any effect on me anymore. I eat a lot of salty things. T_T

[marlborowe]

i can usually tell high msg food because it is usually very sshiny and yellowy and oily.

really no need for that much msg.

in fact you dont need msg to make a nice meal - just fresh meat good vegies , fresh seafood and so on will have good flavour.

i htink they use msg to hide old or poor ingredients.

to help overcome it i recommend ice cream. sugary stuff will stop the msg crush.

[loversixteen]

I remembered everytime I eat at food court, I come back home and get really bad stomachache. ALWAYS like that, so I keep on thinking that the put WAYYY too much MSG, though the food there are really good.

[emceej]

hahah i don't really care D:
but if it's too oily or salty, i do care .

[twig*star]

I love chicken salt which usually has a lot of msg but no problems ....

For some reason though with restaurant foods I get major headache with it and i am a girl who never ever gets headaches for any reason.

[jellyace695]

We dont use MSG here. We use salt.

[Chooniex]

I know MSG is bad for you but it makes the food taste so much richer. I don't know... I like it. Even though I do get really really thirsty after eating haha

[V A L XD]

I actually heard, MSG is not bad for you, it just that your overreacting to it.
Here's a post from my favorite chief.

Demystifying Monosodium Glutamate



Hey, Tom! What’s the deal with MSG? What is it and why is it bad for you? I’m assuming it’s bad for you since every Chinese Restaurant in the world claims “No MSG!”



A. MSG is a flavor enhancer that has been used effectively to bring out the best taste in foods, emphasizing natural flavors. Many researchers also believe that MSG imparts a fifth taste, independent of the four basic tastes of sweet, sour, salty and bitter. This taste, a new taste recognized by foodies, is called "umami", pronounced oo-MA-mee [Japanese for “deliciousness”]



Glutamate is an amino acid, found in all protein-containing foods. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. This amino acid is one of the most abundant and important components of proteins. Glutamate occurs naturally in protein-containing foods such as cheese, milk, mushrooms, meat, fish, and many vegetables. Glutamate is also produced by the human body and is vital for metabolism and brain function.



Monosodium glutamate, or MSG, is the sodium salt of glutamate. When MSG is added to foods, it provides a similar flavoring function as the glutamate that occurs naturally in food.



Manufactured MSG is comprised of nothing more than water, sodium and glutamate. In the early 1900s, MSG was extracted from natural protein-rich foods such as seaweed. Today, MSG is made from starch, corn sugar or molasses from sugar cane or sugar beets. MSG is produced by a natural fermentation process that has been used for centuries to make such common foods as beer, vinegar and yogurt.



The reality is that the body cannot tell the difference between monosodium glutamate that occurs naturally or that which has been produced in a lab. I won’t argue with people who say that have a sensitivity to monosodium glutamate, but I do believe that people like to jump on bandwagons just to jump on them and that a placebo can have the same effect on you as real medicine. I’ll just ask that you think for yourselves and make intelligent choices based on facts and not on fear or popularity.



For the rest of you who are still with me, you can buy monosodium glutamate at the grocery store under the brand name Accent.



Oh, and those Million Dollar Crackers everyone loves so much? They are made with Hidden Valley Salad Dressing & Seasoning Mix. The number four ingredient? Monosodium glutamate.



By the way, on a restaurant menu or on packaged goods, the word monosodium glutamate must be spelled out in its entirety. You will never seen monosodium glutamate referred to as MSG in these instances.

Read labels

Form your own opinions

Think for yourself

Credits: Xanga.com/Tom

[xiam9]

If I remember correctly, my home-economics teacher told us that "ajinomoto" doesn't really make the food taste better.
What it actually does is it open up you're taste-buds.
I'm such an unhealthy person, I don't really care about these things.
I eat what's in front of me.

[V A L XD]

If I remember correctly, my home-economics teacher told us that "ajinomoto" doesn't really make the food taste better.
What it actually does is it open up you're taste-buds.
I'm such an unhealthy person, I don't really care about these things.
I eat what's in front of me.

Yea, it gives you that 5th tastebud or it opesn your 5th tastebuds